Looking through the Instagram feeds of accomplished film photographers, it’s easy to fall in love with the look of properly scanned and edited professional negative film. For those of us who don’t have access to Richard Photo Lab, or who live in parts of the world where the light isn’t quite as warm or consistently…

I recently got a test film back from the lab. You might wonder why. I shot a test film because my F100 had recently returned from Nikon after having its autofocus recalibrated, after several disappointing rolls returned with strange autofocus errors.